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Register a design - what designs are protected, search the registers, prepare your illustrations, how to apply, disclaimers and limitations.
A design registration helps protect the appearance of a product, such as…
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Get help to classify ceramic articles for import and export.
Soane’s is the idiosyncratic house-museum of the great Neo-Classical architect Sir John Soane (1753 – 1837). The house still displays his collection of antiquities, furniture, models and paintings in the same state in which they were left at the time...
Find out when you can zero rate books and other forms of printed matter.
Get endorsement and approval to apply for the Global Talent visa to work in the UK as a leader in arts and culture - architecture, fashion, film, television.
Find out if relief is available for goods using Temporary Admission and if your goods require you to be established inside or outside the UK.
Find out how to value your goods to help when working out the VAT due when importing goods into the UK.
This advice is for applications for Development Consent Orders (DCO) for linear Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIP). It is for applicants, all interested parties (IP) and persons with rights over land (affected persons (AP)).
The Architects Registration Board (ARB) regulates the architects’ profession in the UK to ensure that good standards of conduct and practice are consistently maintained. ARB is a public corporation of the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government .
View designs registered in the designs journal from the last 25 years
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